Aburi is a town in the Akuapim South Municipal District of the Eastern Region of south Ghana famous for the Aburi Botanical Gardens and the Odwira festival. Aburi has a population of 18,701 people as of 2013.

Peduase Lodge

Peduase is the location of a Presidential summer residence ('Peduase Lodge') built and first used by Ghana's first President, Kwame Nkrumah. It was used in the second republic of Ghana as the official residence of the then Ceremonial President, Edward Akufo-Addo. Since then it has not been permanently resided in by any Ghanaian head-of-state. Peduase Lodge is still used as a Presidential accommodation for the state of Ghana guests. The Presidential Lodge is in Peduase, a town near Kitase on the road to Aburi.

Notable personalities

Aburi is the birthplace of, or home to, several notable people, including:

  • Joyce Bamford-Addo - first female Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and first female Speaker of Parliament of the Fourth Republic
  • E. A. Boateng - First vice chancellor of the University of Cape Coast
  • Josiah Ofori Boateng - Retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana
  • Alexander Worthy Clerk - Jamaican Moravian missionary and educator to the Gold Coast
  • Nicholas Timothy Clerk - Gold Coast theologian, missionary and minister, first Synod Clerk, Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast
  • Carl Henry Clerk - Ghanaian educator, journalist and minister, fourth Synod Clerk, Presbyterian Church of the Gold Coast
  • Jane E. Clerk - Gold Coast educator and public education administrator
  • Ohene Djan - Ghanaian Sports Administrator
  • Samia Nkrumah - Ghanaian politician; daughter of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first leader

Footnotes

: "Ginstation" (derived from English engine ) was a then-common term for a station with a larger system for the automated processing of anything. In most cases, however, was the term for a plant processing of raw cotton meant.

References

Further reading

  • Gruner, Study trip to explore the cocoa and kola popular culture, the tropical planters, 8 (1904) 418–431, 492–508, 540-559
  • Ghana-pedia webpage - Aburi
  • Aburi Botanic Gardens